Battery strap handle

Abstract

A storage battery and handle assembly includes a battery housing having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, a bottom wall and a cover. Each end wall has a socket formed by a pair of flanges parallel to and spaced from the one end wall, the flanges having edges facing each other and defining a narrow slot therebetween opening into a wider slot formed by the flanges and the end wall. The end wall is also provided with a horizontal rib located below but in general vertical alignment with the wider slot. A flexible strap with relatively rigid connectors at each end thereof is employed, each connector including a plate portion with a strip extending across a bottom of the plate portion, the strip extending beyond side edges and a front face of the plate portion, and lying flush with a back face of the plate portion, thereby forming a smooth horizontal shoulder extending across the front face of the plate portion. The plate portion extends into the wider groove, with the smooth horizontal shoulder in flush engagement with lower edge surfaces of the pair of flanges, and with a lower edge of the strip engaged with a top side of the rib.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A battery strap handle comprising a strap with connectors at each end thereof, each connector including a plate portion having flat front and back sides, a pair of side edges and a bottom, with a horizontally projecting strip extending across the bottom of the plate portion, said strip extending beyond said side edges and the front side of the plate portion, and lying flush with the flat back side of the plate portion, said strip thereby providing a horizontal shoulder extending outwardly from and across the front side of the plate portion, said shoulder having a continuous flat surface extending between lateral side edges of said horizontally projecting strip. 
     
     
       2. The battery strap handle of claim 1 wherein said horizontally projecting strip increases in thickness continuously from an end remote from said strap toward said horizontal shoulder. 
     
     
       3. The battery strap handle of claim 1 wherein said horizontally projecting strip has a tapered front face and tapered side edges. 
     
     
       4. The battery strap handle of claim 1 wherein said strap is provided with a handle grip intermediate the ends thereof. 
     
     
       5. The battery strap handle of claim 1 wherein said strap comprises polypropylene. 
     
     
       6. The battery strap handle of claim 5 wherein said strap comprises woven polypropylene fabric. 
     
     
       7. The battery strap handle of claim 4 wherein said handle grip is made of plastic. 
     
     
       8. A storage battery and handle assembly comprising: a battery housing having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, a bottom wall and a cover, each end wall having a socket formed by a pair of flanges parallel to and spaced from said one end wall, said flanges having mutually opposed end faces and defining an entry opening into a slot between said flanges and said end wall, said end wall also provided with a horizontally elongated rib located below but in general vertical alignment with said slot; and   a strap with connectors at each end thereof, each connector including a plate portion having flat front and back sides, a pair of side edges and a bottom, with a horizontally projecting strip extending across the bottom of the plate portion, said strip extending beyond said side edges and the front side of the plate portion, and lying flush with the flat back side of the plate portion, said horizontal projecting strip thereby providing horizontal shoulder extending outwardly from and across the front side of the plate portion, said plate portion lying in said slot, with said horizontal shoulder in flush engagement with lower edge surfaces of said pair of flanges, and with a lower edge of said horizontally projecting strip engaged with a top side of said horizontally elongated rib, thereby releasably locking the connector within the slot.   
     
     
       9. The battery strap handle of claim 8 wherein said horizontally projecting strip increases in thickness continuously from an end remote from said strap toward said horizontal shoulder. 
     
     
       10. The storage battery and handle assembly of claim 8 wherein said strap is provided with a handle grip intermediate the ends thereof. 
     
     
       11. The storage battery and handle assembly of claim 8 wherein said strap comprises polypropylene. 
     
     
       12. The battery strap handle of claim 11 wherein said strap comprises woven polypropylene fabric. 
     
     
       13. The storage battery and handle assembly of claim 10 wherein said handle grip is made of plastic.